In a statement, the RAE, which described him as “one of the greatest novelists in the Spanish language”, recalled his career as a professor of Spanish Literature and Translation Theory at the University of Oxford (1983-), at Wellesley College in Massachusetts (1984) and at the Complutense University of Madrid (1986-1990) and also that he was knighted in the Order of Arts and Letters of France. “Sad day for Spanish letters,” the president of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez, said yesterday on his Twitter account. “Javier Marías, one of the great writers of our time, leaves us. His immense and talented work will always be a fundamental part of our literature”. “Totally knocked out with the death of Javier Marías,” wrote the novelist Rosa Montero. ”I know him and have treated him for 50 years. We were never close friends but it was like family.
“Many of my characters are interpreters”, he said in another part of the dialogue with this newspaper, “people who have given up their own voice. One is an opera singer who reproduces what someone composed. Another, a teacher who limits himself to transmitting inherited knowledge. Another, an interpreter of tongues. Another a scribe, a literary Negro, a ghost writer. There is the translator who puts his voice at the service of what others say. And I was missing the greatest performer, the one we all want to be, which is to be the performer of lives, which is the one from ‘Your face tomorrow’. I think we would all like to have the ability to see what we can expect from people, especially those who are close to us or very dear to us, or those with whom we are going to have business or some kind of deal. We spend our lives testing to what extent we can know about others. We all know that feeling of not knowing to what extent we can trust, and also that of disappointment and disappointment, of phrases like: I would have put my hands in the fire for that person, or I would have risked my skin for her, or it is the Last person I could expect this from.”
He was 20 years old when his first novel, “Los dominios del lobo”, was published in 1971. But recognition for his work did not come until his fifth publication, “El hombre sentimental”, Herralde Prize 1986. Two outstanding titles would follow, “All souls” (1989) and “Corazón tan blanco” (1992), with which he made the final leap to fame. His last novel was “Tomás Nevinson”, published last year. Frequently controversial, his columns in the newspaper El País strayed from “political correctness.”
Source: Ambito
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